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More Amputation Quotes

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• A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
• I am happy to be able to be part of this Rock'n'Blues Fest as the first tour since the amputation… — Leslie West
• The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who… — Terry Fox
• When Christians are caught in sin, they do not need isolation or amputation; they need restoration. The proper thing to… — Philip Graham Ryken
• It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from… — Camilla Gibb
• In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War… — Sam Kean
• The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out… — Edward Gorey
• All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. — Marge Piercy
• The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty. — Megan Whalen Turner

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